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The headlines: The Yorkshire MEP, Godfrey Bloom, says he regrets any | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
offence his comments on foreign aid may have caused. How we can possibly | :00:15. | :00:21. | |
be giving �1 billion a month when we're in this debt to bongo bongo | :00:21. | :00:27. | |
land is complete completely irrational. Of He says he's glad the | :00:27. | :00:30. | |
issue of foreign aid has been put on the agenda. | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
Also cleaning teams start work at a play area in Hull linked to the | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
spread of an infectious bacteria. It's gone through the family in the | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
past couple of weeks any way. Hopefully we won't get it again. It | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
is quite worrying something like this. Snrvment How money from a | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
charity, run by Prince Charles, is helping local farmers. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Yes, we've done it! And find out later why this 72-year-old is | :00:58. | :01:04. | |
celebrating after his morning dip. After another fine, dry day across | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
east Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, I'll be back later with your full | :01:07. | :01:17. | |
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forecast for tomorrow and into the Good evening. The east Yorkshire | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
based MEP, Godfrey Bloom, says he regrets any offence that's been | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
caused by his use of the phrase "bongo bongo land". He was recorded | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
at a public meeting where he criticised the amount of Government | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
money spentds on overseas aid. The UK Independence Party has warned him | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
not to use those words again. However, in an interview with BBC | :01:42. | :01:52. | |
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Look North, Mr Bloom defended his Godfrey Bloom, he thrives on the | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
image of being one of our most politically incorrect politicians | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
sm. Claim the UKIP MEP has overstepped the mark. How we can | :02:02. | :02:10. | |
give �1 billion a month when we're in this debt to bongo bongo land... | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
As well as using that phrase, Mr Bloom told a meeting of supporters | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
in the Midlands those who received foreign aid spent the money on ray | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
ban sun glasses, apartments in Paris and Ferraris. There's no such place | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
as bango bango land. I don't see how I could upset to a place that | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
doesn't exist. However Natalie says she is offended. Natalie and her | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
husband adopted an African orphan called Star. The family have worked | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
with charities in Africa. It's making them sound nothing more than | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
running through the shrub in loincloths beating drums. They're so | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
much more than that. They're just like us. He's just perpetuating the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
idea that they're not worth our money because they're black and | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
because they sit around playing bongos all day. It's absurd. | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
question the �11 billion the Government will spend this year on | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
overseas aid. The money that the UK Government disperses through | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
organisations like Christian Aid is very, very heavily accountable. It | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
is going to places where the level of poverty is such that it would be | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
unimaginable for people in this country and where it makes a very | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
real difference to people's lives. Godfrey Bloom is no stranger to | :03:25. | :03:31. | |
controversy. When he was first elected in 2004, he was asked about | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
gender equality and said, "Women should clean behind the fridge." In | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
2010, he was ejected from the European Parliament after directing | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
a Nazi slogan at a German MEP. Following Mr Bloom's comments, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
UKIP's chairman said today, "We're asking Blood Red Shoes blood not to | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
use this phrase again, as it may be considered disparaging to members | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
from other countries." Steve Crowther claims the response from | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
voters has been anything but negative. I have been in touch with | :04:04. | :04:08. | |
the region quite extensively today. I have to say that from many parts | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
of the party up there we are hearing that the response has been | :04:12. | :04:17. | |
overwhelmingly positive. UKIP say they won't be taking any further | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
disciplinary action against the outspoken MEP, other than a warning | :04:20. | :04:26. | |
to mind his language. Earlier today I spoke to Godfrey | :04:26. | :04:33. | |
Bloom. I asked him if he stands by his comments. Yes, I do. I made a | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
speech in Birmingham and I was talking about the �1 billion a month | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
we send with virtually no audit trail every month. I think it's a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
disgrace when we're cutting back on hospitals and police in our own | :04:43. | :04:48. | |
country. Do you understand why using the phrase "bongo bongo land" is | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
offensive to many? No, it's offensive to Guardian journalists. | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
It's not offensive to anybody else. Not offensive to people at home. | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
There is no such country. How can anybody be offended? I might have | :05:01. | :05:07. | |
offended and I'm going to write and apologise to President Bongo of the | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
Gambon in case he thought I was referring to him. I was reading an | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
e-mail from Russ who says, "Not just un-PC, but child itch. Would you go | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
along with that? What is stupid is sending nearly 100% of our growth in | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
GDP next year abroad and without a trail, we don't know where the money | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
goes. I would argue that is criedish. You say the Government | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
shouldn't be picking people's pockets to give on foreign aid. It | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
works out at �137 per person. Is that too much? You have to ask the | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
viewers that. We are going to in a moment. I would have thought when | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
people are waiting for cancer treatment, dialysis machines so on | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
and so forth, waiting for these things that we don't have, I would | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
argue sending money abroad is not a good thing. People say it's not just | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
morally right it helps stop breeding grounds for terrorists. That is in | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
our national interest, surely? I believe people should and I do give | :06:02. | :06:08. | |
money to all sorts of charities. I we have a worth worthy charities | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
here in Hull for fresh water but that's not the Government's | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
responsibility. Britain has been praised for being one of the most | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
generous countries in the world. Should we be proud? We are the most | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
generous country in the world per capitala. It isn't for rich men like | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
David Cameron to take money from poor people to send abroad. �430 | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
million spend on malaria programmes, that's not apartments in Paris. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
but of course, only part of the speech has been released. Some of it | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
does good work. I still don't believe it's the role of Government | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
to take taxation from people to give to charities. If I want to give to a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
charity, Save the Children or antimalaria or Red Cross, whatever | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
it is, that is my responsibility. It's not for the Government to do | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
that. What percentage of people watching will think we give too much | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
in foreign aid? I think nearly 100%. 400 million a month goals to the EU | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
to distribute in aid. We have no idea where it goes. Your listeners | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
who have a mother waiting for cancer treatment or a father waiting for | :07:11. | :07:12. | |
dialysis machines or not enough police in their neighbourhood, I | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
think they'll agree with me. Final question on the bongo bongo land, | :07:17. | :07:23. | |
apology? Do you want to make one? will apologise to President Bongo of | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
the gap Bonn if he -- Gambon if he thinks I was referring to him. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
you think Britain should be spending billions a year on foreign aid? It | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
is �11 billion. Were you offended bit comments made by Mr Bloom today? | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
If you want to comments, we'll have some before we finish. We look | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
some before we finish. We look some before we finish. We look | :07:44. | :07:54. | |
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cycle race will set off from Yorkshire. Will it now be called | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
England's Grand Depart? Cleaning teams have moved onto a water play | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
IRA in a park in Hull linked to an outbreak of the cryptosporidium | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
infection. An investigation is under way after reports of 18 cases in the | :08:22. | :08:30. | |
area. The bacteria can cause severe diarrhoea, mainly in children. | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
East Park's paddling pool remained closed as workmen moved in to clean | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
the area in what the council has described as a precautionary | :08:37. | :08:43. | |
measure. Since the middle of July, 18 cases of cryptosporidium have | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
been confirmed with the pool being seen as a possible source of | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
infection. We treat all outbreaks seriously... | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Now public health experts have been called in to assist the council's | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
own investigation. We are taking all the precautions and we are doing all | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
what we have to do, because the first thing is stop the, reduce the | :09:05. | :09:11. | |
risk of infection, try to identify the source. Is most common in | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
children aged between one and five. It's also a danger to the elderly. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
Though experts say anyone with a healthy immune system should recover | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
within a month. Parents with experience of the | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
illness say it's the one bug they'd rather avoid. It's gone through the | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
family in the past couple of weeks any way. Hopefully we won't get it | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
again. It's quite worrying something like this. Then it puts you off | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
going to other paddling pools. recent hot weather, hundreds of | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
families had enjoyed the paddling pool. Today parents were finding | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
different ways to occupy their children. I'm not happy but if | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
that's the case, we seen somebody yesterday, said they were putting | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
taps in it for the kids to watch their hands. It would be concerning | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
to go if we didn't know about it and then found out later on. I would be | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
angry. Ensure the outbreak's contained, the council says other | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
pools in the city are also being tested It could be possible that | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
somebody who has been to East Park play area could have been to another | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
pool. But it's unlikely. We just want to be sure. Are you doing about | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
that? We're testing the water. In other areas as well? All through the | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
city, to make sure. Mat jort of those affected are said to be | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
children who recently visited the paddling pool, with families tonight | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
being advised to be extra vigilant over hygiene. | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
Phil is in East Park now. How long have the -- are the | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
authorities expecting the pool to be closed? The council will give no | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
clear indication as to when the paddling pool here will be back to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
normal. It is the height of the summer holiday. They'll be keen to | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
try and resolve these problems as soon as they can. We do know that in | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the last 24 hours, every GP in Hull and east Yorkshire has been | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
contacted by health experts and alerted as to what has been | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
happening. They are, they say, expecting more cases over the next | :11:08. | :11:17. | |
couple of days to appear. Catching the symptoms early could be crucial | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
in preventing the spread of the infection. | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
More news now, a new inquest will be held into the death of a man whose | :11:24. | :11:29. | |
body was washed up on a Norfolk beach 24 years ago. DNA tests last | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
year led to believe it was Michael Sutherland who lived in Cleethorpes. | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
That should now be determined by the Coroners' Court. An open verdict was | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
pronounced in the first inquest held in 1990. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
Detectives investigating the armed robbery at a jewellers in Beverley | :11:44. | :11:50. | |
have released a CCTV image a second person. They would like any | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
information about the clothes worn during the robbery. Both suspects | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
wore white paper overalways and black balaclavas. Watches were | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
stolen from the Guest andPhillips Jewellers yesterday morning. | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Staff Attenborough the City of Lincoln Council will now earn what's | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
known as a living wage, a minimum of �7. 45 an hour. The change will | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
affect 39 people who have been on a rate of �6. 35, just above the | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
national minimum wage. The living wage is worked out with members of | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
the public based on what households need to maintain their standards of | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
living. �7 million is to be spent on | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
improvements to the buildings at the University of Lincoln. The | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
Government money will fund two new schools. The new students are | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
expected to start there in the next two years. | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Now Prince Charles is well known as a champion of rural life. He even | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
runs his own organic farming business. Now his charity is helping | :12:47. | :12:53. | |
farmers in Lincolnshire. The coastal grazing marshes project is getting a | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
share of �3 million from the Prince's Countryside Fund. The money | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
will be held to help farms diversify and survive. It's being seen as | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
another sign that the future of farming is looking brighter. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
One of our colleges has just reported that more youngsters are | :13:10. | :13:20. | |
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Ben is one of two apprentice iss in Lincolnshire funded by the Prince 's | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
countryside fund. He's being guided through the most important event in | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
the farming calendar by a custodian of this industry. I was hoping I | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
wouldn't have to spend five days a week in college, so now I get the | :13:43. | :13:50. | |
chance to earn money and work and dot job I like at the same time. | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
started work at 15. This has always been a family farm. We've continued | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
in the same way really. I'd like to think that some of the skill that | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
I've picked up over the years that they'll not die completely, because | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
they'll be passed on. Farmers who congregate in the market, they work | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
hard and they've had long experience. Farming has changed | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
dramatically since the war, as these pictures of a cattle market show. | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
But with many farmers now exceed exceeding retirement age, new blood | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
is needed. Latest figures suggest the number of people farming in | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
Britain has declined 26% over the past 20 years. And it's estimated | :14:29. | :14:35. | |
that 60,000 new farmers are needed in the next decade to ensure its | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
future sustainability. Bishop Burton College in east Yorkshire is helping | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
to train that new generation. Alfie Graham was in the classroom just | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
last year. He now works on the college's farm. The number of young | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
people comeling through -- coming through is quite astonishing. There | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
are more and more people coming into agriculture from nonfarming | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
backgrounds. That's because they see it as something that's not in | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
recession. It could be decades before these graduates are ready to | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
run their own farms, to independently produce the food that | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
this country needs. That is why in the meantime, this industry needs a | :15:11. | :15:16. | |
bit of help. The Prince's Trust have been good in giving us money towards | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
training of people in the area, so that they understand and help to | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
preserve the Lincolnshire coastal grazing marshes use. Ben drives the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
four miles home to a neighbouring village each night in his tractor. | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
An apprentice taking his training seriously! It's a dedication which | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
help him produce the British produce we enjoy in the future. | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
Good news and a boost for farmers in Lincolnshire. Thank you for | :15:48. | :15:56. | |
watching. Still ahead on the programme: How far? Keep going.On | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
the tides. The 72-year-old swimming the Humber for a 70th time. | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
It will be unique. I really can't think of anybody who would be daft | :16:07. | :16:17. | |
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Thank you for the photos. Tonight's was taken by Mike B ra d. | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
-- Bard. -- Bard. | :16:29. | :16:39. | |
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"I was shopping in and very excited when I saw Peter Levy in the pound | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
shop." With all your money! In the shop." With all your money! In the | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
pound shop! All right, get over it. Taking after Hudson. Should have | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
brought some Lypsil for you. Tonight has been nice and warm. The greater | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
risk of catching a shower tomorrow I think. There will be spells of | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
sunshine that could be a little bit warmer tomorrow. 22, 23 degrees | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
around the Wash. And it's because we are still in the settled spell of | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
weather. Still a ridge of high pressure. Tomorrow night, this | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
weather front pushes in. It's a fairly weak affair. It brings patchy | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
rain and drizzle overnight into Friday. Friday should brighten up | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
again. On the satellite picture, we have a mootling of cloud. We have | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
had cloud through the day. Also spells of sunshine. Sunny spells | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
into this evening. It looks like a fine night. A dry night with long, | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
clear spells that. Allows patchy mist and fog to develop. | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Temperatures back to around 11 or 12 degrees. I think in the countryside, | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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like last night, it could be quite drop to around seven or eight | :17:54. | :17:59. | |
degrees, which is possible, we get a bit of mist, it could feel autumnal. | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
It will warm up. The rest of the sunshine through the morning. The | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
cloud bubbling up. Through the afternoon showers about. Not | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
everywhere catches one. In the sunshine in between, it feels warm | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
with temperatures around where they should be for this time of year. The | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
breeze will be mostly gentle and temperatures will lift to around 22 | :18:16. | :18:22. | |
degrees, which is 72 Fahrenheit, perhaps 23 around the Wash. | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
On Friday, we start with a reasonable amount of cloud. It | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
should brighten up. The best day of should brighten up. The best day of | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
the weekend will be Saturday. Can't believe I'm saying this, but | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
when is he back from holiday? for ages. He likes to take about | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
three months off! He's like a politician. Oh, gosh. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
Serve you right. I've been savage the last couple of weeks. See you | :18:47. | :18:50. | |
tomorrow. Next year, the world's biggest | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
annual sporting event, the Tour De France, will start in Yorkshire. | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
When the decision was announced in December, it was seen as a coup for | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
the county and a huge boost for tourism. Now it's emerged that the | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
Government wanted to market the event not as Yorkshire's Grand | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Depart, but England's. In a moment we talk to the man given the job of | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
running the tour. First this report. It's one of the biggest sporting | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
events in the world. It attracts millions of spectators. When it was | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
announced that the Tour De France would start in Yorkshire next year, | :19:25. | :19:30. | |
the county was propelled not -- into the international spotlight. We're | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
delighted. For the whole of Yorkshire this is an early Christmas | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
present. Though the route wouldn't pass directly through east | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
Yorkshire, tourism bosses urged local people to embrace it. Now it's | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
emerged that the Government wanted to market the event not as | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
Yorkshire's Grand Depart, but as England's. The national tourist body | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
visit England's first news release about the tour mention England's 11 | :19:54. | :20:01. | |
times and York Yorkshire -- mention England 11 times and Yorkshire just | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
three times. With less than a year to go, the revelations make | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
uncomfortable reading for those who worked to bring it to the county. | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
Joining me now is Sir Rodney Walker, the man put in charge of the tour | :20:13. | :20:18. | |
here by the Government. Good evening to you. Hello, Peter.Let's clear | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
this up. The lion's share of the route is in Yorkshire, will it be | :20:24. | :20:30. | |
granded as Grand Depart Yorkshire. The brand is secure. It's agreed | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
with the rights holders and it will be the welcome to Yorkshire Grand | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
Depart. The Government want to market the event not as Yorkshire | :20:39. | :20:46. | |
but as England? It isn't something that I've been full lay ware of. Do | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
visit England want to be aware? Of course, they do. Because there's two | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
days in Yorkshire. The third day is Cambridge, via Essex and the Olympic | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
Stadium to the mall. It is at the end of the day, an English event. | :21:00. | :21:05. | |
There's no question of it being anything other than two days of the | :21:05. | :21:14. | |
Grand Depart in Yorkshire. Two days in Yorkshire and a press release, 11 | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
references to England and only three to Yorkshire. Was that a bad move? | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
have spoken several times to the chief executive of visit England and | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
I'm waiting for him to give me his proposals as to out Visit England | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
can complement the publicity that Welcome to Yorkshire are going to be | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
putting out. I don't see any conflict at all. I do want them to | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
be involved but not take over the events. Briefly, we in east | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
Yorkshire here feel already a bit left out of the race. Can you | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
understand that why when west, south and west are part of it and we're | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
not. Is it too late? There's nothing I can do about changing the route, | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
I'm afraid. But what is good news is that a lot of the local authorities | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
through the length and breadth of Yorkshire want to see this event a | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
great success. It's going to cost us �21 million or there about and the | :22:10. | :22:15. | |
prospects are that it will generate over �100 million of inward | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
investment and tourism. I'm sure you regret we're not coming to east | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
Yorkshire as well? I would love it to go to one of my favourite towns, | :22:23. | :22:27. | |
which is Scarborough, which I think is North Yorkshire, rather than | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
east, but it can't go everywhere. OK. Very good to have you on the | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
programme tonight. Thank you very much. | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Now, lots of response last night on bus, taxi and lorry drivers | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
attending a course in Hull designed to give them a cyclist's view of the | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
city's roads. It's part of council efforts to make drivers aware of the | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
dangers facing cyclists and involve them getting on their bikes and | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
going on the road for themselves. A big response on this one. Just a | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
few, Graham, "If the cyclists choose the cycle lane that has been made | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
available to them, there would be a available to them, there would be a | :23:04. | :23:14. | |
:23:14. | :23:33. | ||
those. Scunthorpe United have been knocked | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
out of the League Cup against barnedzly after a goal -- Barnsley, | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
after a goalless away draw sent it to penalties. | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
This was the decider after a shootout that saw nine missed spot | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
kicks. The Iron lost narrowly by five penalties to four. | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
It took him over three-and-a-half hours, but 72-year-old Pete | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Winchester from Lincolnshire has completed his dream of swimming the | :24:00. | :24:07. | |
Humber for the 70th time. He set off from Spurn Point yesterday for a | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
12-mile swim to Cleethorpes. From east Yorkshire's coast to | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
Lincolnshire's. A 70th Humber swim for 72-year-old Pete Winchester and | :24:19. | :24:23. | |
his guide boat team. Over the years, he's raised thousands for charity | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
and still keeps coming back. This time, though, he insists it's his | :24:28. | :24:36. | |
last crossing. I had an ambition to swim the Humber to emulate join | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
finch or Brenda Fisher that swap the channel. When I did it once. My | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
first question to the lads - when are we going again? Now we're on my | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
70th, it will be unique, I really can't think of anybody who would be | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
daft enough. That's because there's more than merely smearing on | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
Vaseline. He has to time it just right and avoiding some obstacles. | :25:03. | :25:07. | |
You can't swim against the current, so we have to make use of a little | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
bit of the ebb, cut across dush the slack water period and then take the | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
flood assisting us behind the swimmer and cut back into the shore. | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
I want to be successful. I do want to call it a day. It is a big one, | :25:21. | :25:27. | |
really. So to the swim. With the tides against him at first, peat's | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
fast start soon slowed Andujar hour in, conditions -- slowed and an hour | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
in, conditions worsened. We want to be further down. Pete this was | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
becoming an epic swim. Two hours in and the shore still not in sight. | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Normally he would be almost home and dry by now. Instead it was another | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
hour-and-a-half before this. Stop! hour-and-a-half before this. Stop! | :25:53. | :26:01. | |
hour-and-a-half before this. Stop! Pete, stand up! Yes! We've done it. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
Yeah three-and-a-half hours it was a long one. I was cold, though I'm not | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
cold now. I think because of excitement. I can tell you honestly, | :26:09. | :26:15. | |
it was tough. It's amazing, it is really. Nobody will do it like Pete | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
has, not 70 times. Not as many times. No. So 70 Humber swims at the | :26:21. | :26:29. | |
age of 72, time to retire, you'd think and who knows, maybe he will. | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
I reckon he'll be back. Well done to Pete. Now the main national and | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
regional headlines: The Governor of the Bank of England says interest | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
rates could stay at a record low for another three years. The Yorkshire | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
MEP, Godfrey Bloom, has said he regrets any offence caused by his | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
comments on foreign aid. Tomorrow: Sunny spells and scattered showers. | :26:50. | :26:57. | |
Some places stay dry. Temperatures Some places stay dry. Temperatures | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
up to 23 Celsius. Big response on Godfrey Bloom's comments after | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
talking to him a few minutes ago. Steve says, Godfrey Bloom is right | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
in what he says. We fought in two world wars for the right of Free | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
Speech. Why ostracise the man for speaking the truth? Another one | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
says, complaining of millions of pounds going in aid was speaking for | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
many of us. Quite ridiculous to see the wealth of some of the leaders of | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
third world countries. Simon and Judith say, "We are not | :27:23. | :27:28. | |
amongst Mr Bloom's nearly 100%. His comments and glib manner are | :27:28. | :27:32. | |
designed to create an environment which racist comments are | :27:32. | :27:38. |